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- Observation and inference
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.4
- In their study of observation and inference, students will use activity sheets and coins to differentiate between observation and inference through a problem-solving approach, and demonstrate their knowledge by analyzing an archaeological artifact and creating their own observation-inference statements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Scientific inquiry
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.8
- In their study of scientific inquiry, students will use an activity sheet to make inferences about what activities go on at different places in school (desk, locker, etc.) and form an hypothesis about how space is used. They will also simulate how archaeologists learn about past people by designing and conducting a research project.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- A Siouan village
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.6
- In their study of an excavated village site, students will record observations about a site feature and infer how past peoples used individual features and the site as a whole. They will also summarize how archaeologists use observation and inference to determine past lifeways.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
